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Ancient Greek
Etymology
According to Beekes, the variation κν-/γν- points to a Pre-Greek origin of the word. Not related to κνίζω (knízō, “to scratch, gash”), nor to κνύω (knúō, “to scratch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kná.pʰos/ → /ˈkna.ɸos/ → /ˈkna.fos/
Noun
κνᾰ́φος • (knáphos) m (genitive κνᾰ́φου); second declension
- prickly teasel, used by fullers to card or clean cloth
- carding-comb, also used as an instrument of torture
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Further reading
- “κνάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “κνάφος”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- κνάφος in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN